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On November 30, 2009, twelve activists locked themselves together in the middle of an intersection outside the Chicago Climate Exchange, in the heart of the financial district in downtown Chicago. The Chicago Climate Exchange is the first and largest carbon trading institution in North America. A network of groups in Chicago planned this action as [...]

Members of the gas-drilling industry acknowledged on Thursday evening a failure to inform the public about their procedures, and the audience at the WVIA call-in show reminded them of that often.

Conservationists who have worked for years to sustain the Kihansi spray toad are unsure it can survive if it is returned to the wild.

President Obama ordered the rapid development of technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal.

Evaluating Copenhagen:
What it Means for Ecology, Economy, and Equity

Tuesday, February 16th 7 pm – 9 pm

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER THEATRE
1529 16TH STREET NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, DC 20036

Featured Speakers:

•Martin Khor, Director of the South Centre

•Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Director of the Tebtebba Foundation and Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

•Maude Barlow, Chair of the Council of Canadians and Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the UN’s General Assembly

•Gopal Dayaneni, Movement Generation, head of delegation to Copenhagen for US grassroots leaders from urban, racial, economic and environmental justice groups

•Victor Menotti, Executive Director, International Forum on Globalization

This FREE event aims to:
• Provide alternative perspectives on the outcomes of the December 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
• Reinforce the reasons why a UN climate process is so critical
• Point to possible ways forward to a successful conclusion at Cancun in December 2010

Sponsored by the International Forum on Globalization, Institute for Policy Studies, Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth, Movement Generation, and ActionAid.

Downloadable Flyer for DC Copenhagen Eval

An academic board has largely cleared Dr. Michael E. Mann of misconduct arising from the unauthorized release of more than 1,000 e-mail messages.

Two decades after the SWOP letter, the big environmental groups report their progress on the issue of environmental justice.

After nearly two years of pleading for someone to listen to their concerns about an abnormally high number of birth defects, families bonded by the suffering of their children got one of the biggest ears in the West on Wednesday.

Federal environmental regulators on Wednesday unveiled a $29.3 million plan to clean up a Rialto Superfund site by pumping tainted groundwater and treating it to remove perchlorate and other toxic contaminants.

The American Smelting and Refining Company, known as Asarco, will pay a record $1.79 billion to settle claims for hazardous waste pollution at 80 sites in as many as 20 states.

Founded in 1980, the SouthWest Organizing Project spent the decade helping neighborhoods contaminated by pollution. In March 1990, Richard Moore became the director or the organization and was poised to make SWOP a household name - at least in the mainstream environmental community.

Illegal dumping is just one of the hardships that burden everyday life on Pajarito Mesa, an unincorporated rural community southwest of Albuquerque. Because it's more than 150 miles from the Mexican border, the community doesn’t meet the official federal definition of a colonia.

Two decades after the SWOP letter, the big environmental groups report their progress on the issue of environmental justice.

Not since the early 1990s - when President Clinton's appointee Carol Browner headed the agency and established its office of environmental justice - has an EPA administrator focused on the degradation and pollution of communities of color. Then, Lisa Jackson took over.

After years of complaining, local environmental activists say they are close to winning commitments for extensive contaminant testing at most of the sites in and around a former burn dump in Massachusetts.

The regional administrator for the EPA said he "learned a lot" after talking Wednesday with residents of this poor farmworker community about a cluster of birth defect cases.

In addition to transforming and reinvigorating the environmental, labor, indigenous and civil rights movements, environmental justice has established a vision for change so bold and revolutionary that we are just now beginning to realize both its wisdom and impact.

European officials are increasing pressure for an international ban on bluefin tuna, a threatened fish whose fatty belly is prized for sushi.

The federal government plans to plant a bold vertical garden with “vegetative fins” that will grow more than 200 feet high on the western façade of the main federal building.

Concern about the heavy metal cadmium in jewelry grew Tuesday as a California environmental group said new testing of adult necklaces and bracelets bought at three leading retailers detected high levels of the toxic material – as much as 75 percent by weight.